Andratx on the Mallorcan coast is where we did our WINGit training with Srephan from WINGit, Germany. Jean-Yves, the rigging engineer from Lagoon, was also there for a day to check out the installation specific to this boat. He had specified all the fittings for it. We spent Monday afternoon and Tuesday getting accustomed to the theory of it and checking out the kites and remote control functions. Quite a steep learning curve as none of us had any experience of k...

Max and Shaunagh arrived back safe and sound from Avingnon where they'd had a lovely time. We headed off to Corsica that evening, a 12 hour trip, so as to arrive in the morning with some daylight. Peter and I were a bit tired after our anchor watch night but survived. We did leave earlier than planned as the nearby superyacht had some sort of anchor problem and was likely to swing onto us as they attempted to fix it. So we ended up anchoring in the dark but it w...

St Tropez - Daaarhling, Cannes, Antibes and Nice. The St Tropez marina was booked out - we could see why when we took the dinghy in - huge huge boats all over the place! We anchored out but got moved on as we were in an unauthorised spot (along with about 5 other boats) but ended up in an even better place. The deeper part of the anchorage is full of very big super yachts. St Tropez is something else! Beautiful people and their shops in all the streets. Normal p...

We stayed a while at the Port Camargue marina waiting for the Gulf de Lion to make it's mind up about weather. The big blow we originally were going to hide from fizzled out but then a new one formed just at the end of our planned stay! We took the opportunity of not using the dinghy for a few days to get the leak patched properly. There are two very good French chandleries that we know of from the French Caribbean Islands so that was good for new glue. Shaunagh ...

After leaving Barcelona we started moving around the coast eastwards. Club Nautica Arenys - a nice little marina with a welcome pool, Palamos - a biggish town where we anchored out for a few days then attempted to stay in the bay of Roses area. The marinas here were either booked out or too small for us and the bays were not sheltered from southerlies. Finally we managed to book a mooring buoy at Montjoi. We turned up at 11.00 am only to find that it was booked f...